From: "Eustáquio Rangel" <eustaquiorangel@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T10:05:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestion for native thread tests

Hi Sasada!

> I can't understand what do you mean.  Where is a FIFO?  On my
> laptop, this code doesn't block, but continues to show file contents.

FIFO are named pipes. Here's the Wikipedia definition and some samples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe

On Linux it can be created with

mkfifo thread_test.fifo

It will create a pipe where you can send and read information. To make the
blocking stop on my example, we need to send something to the FIFO, like

echo "hi sasada!" > thread_test.fifo

Check this out:



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